The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
BILL NYE's BLASTED PASS.
The Wer Between the Press and the Rail
ways-A Real Estate Item.
New York World.l


blasts of the l. c. B. By the 1. G. B. /
mean TO imply the interstate commerce
bill.
Iroticed while en- route that the new
law had stimulated travel to a wonderful
degree. On my way from the South, where
/ was during the winter, l noticed that the
sluggish arteries of trade had already be-
gun to palpitate and crowds Of people filled
the cars on every train.
said to myself. Congress has at last
solved this great question of financial
stringency and broken the great dam that
held capital captive. On the Piedmont Air
Line. people crushed each other together
in a mad attempt to travel. On the Rich
mond and DanvilIe and f. T., Y. and G.,
as well as the L. and N, humanity crowded
day coaches and sleepers till the walls
cracked. At Cincinnati l could not get a
sleeping-csr at all, and | had to telegraph
twenty-four hours ahead to get one from
Chicago. Everywhere, as far as the eve
could reach, there seemed to be wild and
restless desire to get somewhere else. Sew
eral companies had to put on extra
coaches to carry the eager tourists.
arrived here Just in time to witness the
last moments of Northwestern pass as its
spirit took its fight. Had | postponed my
journey for single day would have been
too late.
1t was still young. Life was bsfore it.
Barely quarter Of the span of its life had
been passed when it curled up and ex-
pired. It was a cute little thing, with an
olive complexion and large, mournful,
upper-case eyes.
a few weeks ago noticed that it did not
look well. 1t did not complain of illness
or pain, but thought detected a condi-
ton on its back, and so | hurried home in
order to be here in case it should expire.
AS soon as the conductor looked at il and
felt its pulse he said that he could do
nothing for it. The interstate commerce
law is one of those things that will have to
be tried before we can pass upon il, pre-
sumo, though some claim that it is going
TO he very difficult to pass upon it even
then. This thought occurred to me Just
after the gate-keeper pushed me back yes
terday and told me to go and get my ticket.
| then first realized what it was to be
rudely ground under the heel of cold
corporation that Is devoid of heart devoid
of soul, devoid of noble thoughts, devoid
of refined instincts, devoid of kind inn
pulses, devoid OF milk OF human kindness,
devoid of bowels of compassion.
From force of habit l walked up to the
gate with Joyous nod and the old pass
word, only to be coldly repulsed by the
hired bouncer of this heartless, soulless,
impulseless, milkless and bowlless corpor-
alton.
But the railroads will get the worst of it,
for know that travel on some of the lines
has fallen of since April l. l can see it
already. l have fallen off myself since the
first of the month, and others will do the
same
That is not all A friend of mine who
runs paper, and whose pass got the hol-
low horn on Friday last, says that his
columns are now open to those who wish
to complain of the management of this
road. He states that the first hot box will
be duly chrOnicled, and that he will no
longer close his eyes to the wrongs we have
heretofore suffered at the hands of this un-
| Just and ruthless vampire that has been
sapp,ng the very foundation of our institu-
tons and smearing its long, dark trail with
| the remnants of our best milch cows,
reluctantly paying for them the price set
at the tail of an unjust and enervating
trial by corrupt, yenal and dwelling
| jury.
He SAYS that ''the time has came for the
press to arise and assert ITSELF" and when
the train runs of the track and kills lot
of people who have led exemplary lives,
his paper will hereafter tell why and how
it was done. Heretofore he has not had
sufficient help in the Office, he claims, and
he frequently ran shor. of type, but now he
is going to give all the particulars of the
first smash-up that occurs on the road If
the paper falls into the resembles NAV of a
Sheriff's sale on the following week.
asked a railroad official of st. Paul yes
terday what effect the new law would nave
on the freight rates in the Northwest, and
he said he thought they would not be
much higher than they were before. This
announcement will fall like healing balm
on the sore place where the shippers an
nual pass was ruthlessly torn from his
bleeding heart last week.
The real estate hmm alOuO the -boraS Of
Lake Superior still continues. II is equal
to the patmy days OF mining speculation
in the far West. The boom, in fact. ex-
tends from Ashland and Washburn. Vest
Superior and Duluth, through Minnsap-
oils ST. Paul. Omaha and Kansas City 70
FL Paso. / consider it good time to all.
and shall dispose OF my Lake Superior
property by wire tomorrow. / do every
thing can by wire now. Last year gen.
erall Y went in person and transacted my
business.
Three years ago, however, bought a
block by wire in Dakota town, intending
to sell as soon as | could double my money
on it, but the agent failed to sell until 1
got irritated and wrote him snort, crisp
letter, asking him, in scathing terms, why
he did not dispose of the lots and remit
He replied that he had tried to DO, as
instructed him, but had been unable to
sell them at any price, although the town
| itself was growing. He said that the town
was growing in the other direction, mostly,
and lots generally sold better in the direc-
| ton of the growth of the town. "By and
by" said he, ''the town will reach the
Minnesota State line, and then it will have
TO grow the other way. Your lots will
then rapidly advance. The worst trouble
with your lots, however" continued the
agent, lis the fact that in the spring, when
real estate is booming, your property is
under seven feet of water, and this water is
so strongly impregnated with mud that
buyers can not look through it to get a
| good view of your lots"
finally moitgaged the property as heav-
/ lily as possible and continued to lose ii on
the mortgage. 1 do not think have ever
seena better piece of property to float a
first mortgage on than this same property
| referred to. BILL NYE.
Mrs. Darlington and John @. SAKE.